Search results for "Floorplan"
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Enhancing the Sniper Simulator with Thermal Measurement
2014
This paper presents the enhancement of the Sniper multicore / manycore simulator with thermal measurement possibilities using the HotSpot simulator. We present a plugin that interacts with Sniper to retrieve simulation data (integration areas and power consumptions) and calls HotSpot to compute the corresponding thermal results. The plugin also builds a two dimensional floorplan for the simulated microarchitecture. Furthermore we plan to integrate the simulation methodology presented here into an automatic design space exploration process using the multi-objective optimization tool called FADSE. Keywords—multicore; simulator; power consumption; thermal; HotSpot; Sniper
Fully Dynamic Evaluation of Sequence Pair
2013
In the electronic design automation field, as well as in other areas, problem instances and solutions are often subject to discrete changes. The foundational significance of efficient updates of the criterion value after dynamic updates, instead of recomputing it from scratch each time, has attracted a lot of research. In this paper, motivated by the significance of the sequence pair (SP) representation for floorplanning, we develop a fully dynamic algorithm of SP evaluation, that efficiently updates a criterion value after insertions and deletions of SP elements and after modifications of element weights. Our result is based on a new data structure for the predecessor problem, which mainta…